Manufacturing debt recovery
Cross-border supply chains create cross-border payment delays. We recover outstanding invoices from manufacturers, distributors, and OEM partners worldwide.
CLAIRE, Credit manager, Lyon. Shipped 40 pallets. Now discussing one scratch. A Turkish-speaking collector reads the claim. And the photo. One scratch. Forty pallets. Paid in full.
There's a particular kind of silence that descends on an accounts receivable department when a manufacturing invoice hits 90 days overdue. It's not panic — manufacturers are built for patience. They wait for steel deliveries, for customs clearance, for quality inspections that take twice as long as quoted. Waiting is practically a core competency. But there's a meaningful difference between waiting for a shipment and waiting for payment that was due three months ago.
International manufacturing runs on trust and purchase orders. A German precision parts supplier sends €47,000 worth of components to a French assembler because both parties signed an agreement and shook hands — or more likely, exchanged PDFs and clicked "confirm." The components arrive. They're inspected, approved, integrated into the final product. The product ships. Revenue is generated. And somewhere in this beautifully efficient supply chain, the original invoice gets lost in an accounts payable system that processes payments with all the urgency of continental drift.